Taking Down Rape Culture: Laci Green

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Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
6:30 PM

Laci Green will be at University Centre Farquhar Auditorium Sept 30th for an in depth look at our culture’s attitudes and responses to sexual violence.

Laci Green is a 25-year-old web personality, public speaker, and activist from San Francisco. She is best known as the host and creator of the internet’s most popular sex education show, called “Sex Plus”. Sex+ seeks to start a fresh conversation about sexuality that is fun and educational. The show currently reaches 5 million young adults every month in over 125 countries.

Green’s talk, “Taking down Rape Culture”, covers sexual assault awareness, rape culture, victim blaming, consent and prevention. One in four female college/university students will be raped before receiving her diploma. For other marginalized groups, the number is even higher. In this program, Green takes an urgent and in-depth look at our culture’s attitudes about sexual violence. Using recognizable examples, pictures, videos and discussion questions, this program seeks to illuminate some shocking overarching patterns –and offers solutions to bring it to a screeching halt. Green’s programs are all LGBT inclusive.

In 2011, Green graduated with highest honors from UC Berkeley and she currently holds a certificate in rape and dating violence crisis counseling. Throughout college, she taught for-credit sex education classes to at-risk high school students and students at UC Berkeley. In addition to her work on Sex+, she is an educator and consultant for Planned Parenthood, Discovery, and MTV Act. Her work has been featured on CBC, ABC, Dr. Phil, The Science Channel, The Atlantic Magazine, Ms. Magazine, The Huffington Post, Upworthy, and more.

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